I've noticed rather poor internet performance on my Xnet Fusion connection so I thought I'd do a quality test at www.pingtest.net. The report card states...

"Very poor. Real-time Internet application performance will suffer greatly on such a connection. Test to other servers to confirm the result, but definitely talk to your ISP about troubleshooting the issue."

The grade was an unflattering F. Ping 91 msec, 35% packet loss, jitter 15 msec. This test was done mid-morning from Dunedin. A speed test from www.speedtest.net shows a respectable 3.5 Mbps download, but this can drop to as low as 200 kbps in the evening. Yes, I did e-mail Xnet about slow evening speeds, but didn't receive a reply.

Changing ISP is certainly a solution, but to which one? Perhaps if people posted comments on their experiences and speed issues it would provide some hard evidence for people to make a sensible decision.

DrCheese: Changing ISP is certainly a solution, but to which one? Perhaps if people posted comments on their experiences and speed issues it would provide some hard evidence for people to make a sensible decision.

I just tried it and got error, can't action packet loss test. I enjoy pretty good internet, although I don't know by what standards you are judging.

Internet works, isn't too slow, I can watched streaming video more or less. Can download stuff. VFX is ok too. I'm in Auckland.